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Fall 8-1-1985
WGLT Program Guide, August, 1985
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AUGUST PROGRAM GUIDE
PUBLIC RADIO FROM ISU MANAGER'S MEMO COMPACT DISCS COME TO FM 89
Thought I'd take this column to give you a peek at some of the WGLT has begun using a compact disc player, the latest behind the scenes happenings at our public radio station. Two new development in music reproduction technology, thanks to the developments here should enhance your listening enjoyment and generosity of a Friend of WGLT. make our operation more efficient. The disc player was donated to the station in July by a long-time As explained more fully in an article in this month's Guide, a supporter of public radio. His generosity should make a marked Friend of WGLT has donated a compact disc player to the station, difference to our other Friends and listeners as compact disc players keeping us abreast of technological advances. The superior represent a major advance in recording technology. reproduction capability of the CDs will, we hope, enhance your Instead of a needle vibrating in a groove, the compact disc unit listening enjoyment. uses a laser beam that is projected onto the disc penetrating the A less visible, but equally important advance (to us, anyway), is disc's clear plastic coating to pick up a pattern of microscopic pits the establishment of a computerized donor data base for our embedded in the underlying aluminum layer. This gives a higher development office. quality reproduction of music and voice by banishing problems In the past, records of your support were kept in file folders, created by the common turntable such as clicks, pops and rumble. boxes, decks of computer cards ... a system which Development The compact disc was jointly developed by the Sony corporation Director Terry Bush described as "vulnerable to a light breeze." of Japan and the Dutch firm N.V. Philips. The discs themselves are a Since March, Terry and student assistants LeeAnn Burks, Jacqui mere 4.7 inches in diameter and hold up to 74 minutes of playing Hansen and Marian Quinlan have written the programs necessary to time. The compact disc player spins the disc at variable speeds, house the information, compiled and entered donor histories. The beginning at 500 revolutions per minute for the inside tracks and system, now fully operational, should allow us to keep more accurate then slowing up to 200 RPM's as the laser moves to the disc's outer records of your membership renewal dates, etc. edge. As with any transition to computer, mistakes are possible. (So if We are now working to build our library of discs. Unfortunately, you receive a renewal bill one month after you renewed, notify us so we won't be able to get discs from record companies until after we can correct our records.) January 1 when our current contracts for conventional records In closing, let me again thank a Friend of WGLT for his generous expire. donation of a compact disc player. His generosity helps us help you. In the meantime, we are relying heavily on a collection of discs That's what being a Friend of public radio is all about. loaned to the station by yet another Friend of WGLT and may, depending on fund-drive results, be able to purchase a few in the coming months. Our thanks to the two Friends whose generosity has made compact disc technology available to all of the Friends and listeners to our public radio station. LIVE BROADCAST FROM THE BATTLE OVER THE CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS LABOR DAY WEEKEND
As summer vacation ends and Labor Day draws near, we mark the occasion by offering live coverage of one of the largest and most prestigious jazz festivals in the United States. CINSORSHIPHIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW YORK Pl'BLIC LIBRARY SERIES WGLT will broadcast the festival from 6-11 p.m. Friday, August PREMIERES AUGUST 18 30, 7- 11 p.m. Saturday, August 31 and 6-11 p.m . Sunday, September ON" SUNDAY 10 TO 12 I I 1, preempting our regularly scheduled programming. During its seven-year history, the Chicago Jazz Festival has "Battle Over Censorship," an in-depth exploration of various achieved world acclaim for attracting some of the finest performers in issues related to censorship, premieres on August 18 on WGLT's the business to a public jam session in Grant Park. This year is no "Sunday 10 to 12." exception as an outstanding array of jazz artists will gather in Chicago This controversial six-part series is excerpted from the much to present jazz at its best to hundreds who have assembled in the park, and through the live broadcast over American Public Radio, to publicized New York Public Library series "Censorship: 500 years of Conflict." Each program explores a different area of censorship thousands of listeners across the country. ranging from blacklisted performers of the fifties to banned books and The lineup for Friday August 30 beginning at 6 p.m .: The Prince James Group freedom of the press. Among the distinguished panelists participating in the programs Chevere are activist Amiri Baraka, columnist Nat Hentoff, Czech author Josef Muhal Richard Abrams Quartet Svkovecky, actor Morris Carnovsky and Harper and Row President Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross Brooks Thomas. The Illinois Jacquet Big Band Saturday, August 31 at 7 p.m.: The series opens on August 18 with a discussion on censorship in Magic Slim textbooks. David Jones, superintendent of Sayville public schools, Amina Claudine Myers moderates this program entitled "What Should Our Children Learn." The Dirty Dozen Brass Band The second program features a discussion with members of the Original Group Theatre of the 1930's who were subject to blacklisting The Count Basie Orchestra, Directed by: Thad Jones Sunday, September 1 at 6 p.m.: in the 1950's, Mel Gordon, associate professor of drama at New York The Red Hot Peppers University, moderates "Suppression and the Stage" on August 25. The Ken Gueno Group Upcoming programs include black writers on banned books, freedom of the press, censorship with Soviet authors, and the Henry Threadgill Sextet Arturo Sandoval y su Groupo controversy over sex education in the classroom. The Modern Jazz Quartet An ongoing look at the "Battle Over Censorship" begins 10 a.m. Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan in a tribute to Zoot Sims, Sunday, August 18 only on WGLT. featuring: Herbie Steward Jimmy Guiffre §: ..... \ ...... n :: ::r 0 (t) c,::, I (I) '- 9' ~- -=l 3 0-, ':I" ~:::,"'"' I t'D N O:::,... C) ;:;l t'D ::, ---- "? ~ ~ " I 0 .. ;c 3 -a. =-l"l =-o ~ t -a < ~ OCll l~ i Vl 3 S:,,, - · t'D r ~@'~iii·"2g ~ ~~ 1): m "' -< o"'O a. o O a. a o IP ,., a 5· ~ .. 0 a i:rd~o3 m 3::!! I - ~ ~ C - a.. "T1 - (t) t'D C) "tt163.~Qo 3::,_a, ~[ 6 QJ ::::! . "' (D 3.::, CD 5° ,._ Q. "' ::I "'c -< Q.. N ' Ill Q !:::!a,Q.aioi:::<» ::, > , QJ N Cl i: n o I -0 3 a.Q.[:,Q.,o [ 0 QJ .. -0 3 5 '"'CJ... .:- m C :::, Ill ~zo.g l~ ..... ':I" -I cil ~:C i (J) (0 ::::!". 0- -· () o§~
WGLT Week at a Glance Sunday II I lllll II I I I I I Mo nday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 600 a.m Start your day with Morning Edition 600 a.m. Features. commentary and the latest news Morning Concert - I 8.00 a .m Jazz Wave, - a.m. concert and rec11a! music Spend This Morning with classical music from the WGLT record library, aoo the best in Jazz and from the most protound carefully chosen to ease you into the day special interviews symptiony to the ,ghtest song with Jazz artists
930 am About Books & Writers Sunday 10 1012 10:00 a.m WGL T's arts maqaz11·e
NOON r------· NEWS,------+ NOON This Afternoon Jazz Summit And you're certainly welcome to stay for This Afternoon 100 p.m as we present concert and recital music This Afternoon 300 pm
Waahlngton Week 330 pm 400 pm 400 p.m All Things Considered Catch up on the world with All Things Considered All Thlnga Conalderad The Paat la Prologue 5:00 pm National Public Rad1o·s Peabody Award winning program of news and features. 5 00 p m. IA Prolrla Home Companion Our half hour report of state and local news follows at 5 30 p. m Old Time Variety Show The New Show of Old- Time Music 6.00 pm Then This Evening continues with digestible music for the dinner hour 7 00 pm IAllve & Plckln' Folk. bluegrass and country muse 800 pm Milwaukee Cleveland 800pm. Lord Peter Wlmsey Rhythm & Blues 830 pm Symphony Orchestra Hall 01 Fame Night Music Orchestra Featuring 900 pm Folk & Blues 900 p.m 1000 pm
End your day with our Night Music featuring ... The Beat of Jazz .•. pure and simple.
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